Following the trend of the "Do you believe in..." threads

[Ren]

At the expense of anyone here ever taking me seriously again...

Do you believe in faeries/gnomes/elves/other magical creatures?

Anyone who's RPed with me is bound to have noticed my insane obsession with all that is fae. I can't really explain why I love them so much (Okay, well, I could, but that would just make things worse, so pretend that you never read this sentence.), but I am convinced they exist.

Cold, hard evidence? No. And there probably never will be, because faeries are tricky, clever little fuckers that like to mess with your head.

Anyway, I DO have my own personal experiences, and those have convinced my friends and myself...because some of my friends have seen this stuff happen. Stuff in my house disappears. I can turn rooms upside down, search every nook and cranny, everywhere and still not find the missing item. Later, usually after I ask for the items to be brought back or make some kind of appeasement offer, the purloined item shows up in a place I've looked ten times over. In plain sight. It's not just me blatantly missing something.

Most recently, my cell phone disappeared. I turned my rooms upside down, checked all the pockets of every pair of pants I own (which isn't many), checked all my drawers, cleaned out my friend's room, my car, everywhere. I checked all my coat pockets, all his coat pockets at least three times, as did he. After making an appeasement meal and an apology note asking for my phone back, he found the cellphone in the pocket of his coat. One he and I had worn since the phone had disappeared. One we'd checked at least three times. Another time, I lost a CD at school, and looked all over my office (yes, I had my own office in the library) for it. After twenty minutes of looking, I asked for them to give it back, then said fuck it and went to the bathroom. When I came back, the CD was sitting label up on top of a book on the middle of my desk. A book I'd moved, picked up, flipped through and sat down on the desk. I asked my librarian if he or anyone else had been in that room while I was in the bathroom, and no one had.

This kind of thing happens all the time...I have countless stories of this sort of thing happening.

Of course, I don't know that it could be faeries. I just believe it is, for a few reasons.

First, it started after I began feeding them. I would leave food that was selected for fae palates out for them, out of reach of my dog. If I forgot to feed them for a while, my dog would act weird and refused to go outside until I fed them again, immediately after which he'd go back to his normal behavior. Secondly, I've seen little orbs of light flying around. One was scurrying away from an open pomegranate I had sitting on my desk when I walked in the room. Also, I address them as faeries, and they respond to that. Finally, the way they behave has fae nature to it.

So yeah. The rest of you...yea? Nay? Maybe? Any experiences?